I love Sunday mornings at High Rocks! This morning was a particularly wonderful morning. A cool breeze, sun, and I get to sleep in a little bit later than 6:30 am. Although I still woke up early, it felt a little more restful since I did not have to rush off to my morning meeting and the wake-up bell comes thirty minutes later on Sundays.
After a brief peace on the back porch with my coffee, my dogs, and then some productivity time, I made my way to the dining hall. Sundays are also laundry days. While we do not do the laundry here, we do have to get it all up to the dining hall at breakfast so our laundry service can get it back by dinner. Yes, the whole camp by dinner!!! Seems simple enough, just bring up your laundry. Have you ever tried to get 8-year-olds to gather laundry and put it in a bag??? That is far too many steps to keep the focus needed for that effort. Knowing some folks needed some help, I headed down to Conesttee I cabin. Remember the focus part??? There are two sorts of laundry kids at camp. One is the guy that tries to wear the same thing every day. The second type is the guy who wears something new every five minutes! The problem is even the little guy who tries to change very little still thinks all of his stuff is dirty. Imagine that times 164. That is a lot of laundry! Even though the Conesstee boys had a good start going, it took me a solid 30 minutes just to get the laundry in the bags. However, I did get the joy of watching them work together to haul these three giant bags of laundry to the van up at the dining hall. Just one moment of my thankful life at High Rocks.
After breakfast and some assembly, we typically have a little moment down by the lake. Zoob shared some inspiring thoughts for the group and then we spent the rest of the morning in choice activities while our June Mini guys got equainted with a few rules, swim tests, and a tour of camp!
Image Gallery
Below tonight’s blog is the link to the High Rocks Gallery. You will notice that our website and picture gallery is very user-friendly on almost any device, including mobile and tablet devices. To get all the details and features like image download, image tagging, and navigation; please check out the notes and details here at Gallery Help and Highlights. This gallery is password protected. If you are new to the gallery, you should have received an automated email today with details for your login (check your spam folder). If you are a returning family, use the email address that you received in the opening day email. Your password is the same as last year. If you cannot remember, just use the “forgot password” link to retrieve a new one.
It may make sense to save the link and log in to your browser for quick access. I will try my best to get the blog up by 9:30 pm each night, but sometimes camp does get in the way, or our rural internet has been quite slow (or even slower). Don’t fret! We will get you the pictures as soon as we can! We are likely to push up some pictures throughout the day (usually after rest hour), but they will continue to go up until the blog is live. Once the blog is up, it typically means that pictures are up for the day.
Don’t forget to follow us on social media. We will make it worth your while by putting up a couple of extra pictures and a special video from time to time during the day. Facebook: Camp High Rocks, and on Instagram. Feel free to throw up some of these great pictures to share on your feed. We like making High Rocks look good!
If you are interested in the high-resolution download with camper image tagging, you can still order that for the session. Just hit up Darby at office@highrocks.com. She can just put it on your store account. It is $50.00 plus tax. If you have pre-ordered a download subscription, Darby has not updated those yet, but she will have those updated tomorrow. Images are tagged the next morning and the updated.
Camper Schedule
We will send out an email to you about your sons’ schedules around lunchtime tomorrow. You can also find his up-to-date schedule on my.higrocks.com along with trips he has taken during the session. We ask the boys to choose five different activities. They can change on Thursday and Sunday, additionally they always get into the activities they want. Again, look for an email and update around lunchtime tomorrow.
We all participated in the big afternoon event called the “Gnome Games.” Woody was king of the gnomes while campers searched for golden socks and worked through various challenges. Super fun!
Our typical Sunday dinner cookout on the lawn was also perfect. I watched the boys eat pounds of all-beef hot dogs and 1/3 lb Angus burgers. Our grill master, Woody did a great job of serving it up right.
We wrapped up the day with campfire, songs, and I told a story sticking with my adventure theme about a few previous adventures I had up on Mount Washington during a few winter misery trips I used to do before children. Campfire is a weekly event we do to reflect on the past week’s events and think about what’s ahead. It’s a time to be thankful while we pause for just a moment and appreciate all that surrounds us.
Each week we wrap up campfire with a thought from a counselor. Woody Noland received the thought at the end of last season. Woody shared a thought and some timely advice from Winnie the Pooh: “you’re braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.” After the thought, we all sang taps. Afterward, Woody dismissed the boys one cabin at a time to quietly head down the hill. Rebecca Dobbins will have the thought next week.
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